That dank Reefer Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I'm having some trouble with my hammer coral. It has been very healthy, except now I have a lot of receding tissue. Some tissue died incredibly fast, under 24 hours and had some weird growth on it. I lightly removed the dead/rotted tissue with my feeding syringe, it came off much easier than I expected. My parameters are all good, everything looks healthy. regular water changes, tank is around 4 months. So I'm not sure what I have going on, or what to do. any recommendations would be appreciated. First picture was taken under 2 days ago.The second was today when i noticed the dead piece. Third is after I removed the "growth". Link to comment
Bingo1213 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I had this randomly happen to a duncan at one point as well. I ended up fragging the duncan to remove the head with the jelly on it and dipping it in Coral RX. Now it has been almost a year since that happened and my Duncan has more than doubled in size. If fragging is not an option I would consider removing the coral and dipping it in Coral RX or what ever other dip you prefer. Link to comment
patback Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Cut off bad areas and dip it just to be careful. If it's new, just cut off the good areas and throw the others away. Beautiful hammer btw. Link to comment
markalot Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Is that a wall hammer? From what I understand wall hammers can be extremely tricky to keep healthy. Link to comment
That dank Reefer Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 Thank you Pat, it's one of my favorite pieces definitely don't want to lose it, and yes it is a wall hammer, not the branching kind. I dipped it last night, it looks better this morning doesn't seem to be any more dead tissue... Yet. My next step is to frag off the sick area, we'll see how it looks today. Link to comment
Bingo1213 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 How long has the hammer been in your tank? Link to comment
That dank Reefer Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 It's been in my tank around 2 months. Link to comment
vlangel Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 If it is brown jelly that is affecting it I wonder if a probiotic like sanolife mic F could help. You can buy it at Seahorse Source. My guess is brown jelly is fungal in nature which is why I thought a probiotic might help. Link to comment
reefernanoman Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 My wall hammer died also that way. Now I have a beautiful branching hammer coral with no issues, and I'm not looking back. Link to comment
Bingo1213 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 The problem with wall hammers is that when they do get a disease like this, it is rather hard to frag them in a way that is not harmful to the animal. It would take a very steady hand and a good band saw to pull this off. I would exhaust every other option before fragging. Just my opinion! Link to comment
That dank Reefer Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 Yea I was wondering about fragging since it doesn't have traditional heads like a branching coral. I removed all the dying tissue and gave it two iodine dips. Honestly it looks great it just has a small dead piece on it. My questions is, is there any point in fragging the dead spot off, I feel like that will aggravate it more. By the way, does everyone agree that it's Brown jelly? Link to comment
Pinner Reef Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 It's wall hammer disease which is pretty much the same as brown jelly; only less contagious. Really, this is how every wall hammer I've ever dealt with seems to die. Fragging ahead of the necrosis rarely worked in these cases. I eventually got the LFS owner to stop bringing them in altogether. few moths later she was all "we'll just try it one more time" same result. I've often wondered why this particular euphyllia is so much more touchy than the others. Water chemistry, feeding habits, tank inhabitants, placement; I'd considered everything yet they would all eventually just start dying at one end then melt along the entire colony.They're like torches, all happy go lucky one day, shriveled the next, dead the following. And all for no apparent reason. Does anyone know a tank that has had a wall hammer for more than a year? Link to comment
That dank Reefer Posted January 12, 2015 Author Share Posted January 12, 2015 Well that sucks to hear, didn't know they were so difficult. It still looks good tonight. I'll try to get a pic up soon. Link to comment
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